appeal for the flooding catastrophe that s killed more than a thousand people and affected 30 million. the head of the institute for fiscal studies labels some of liz truss s tax cutting policies as worrying and inadequade for dealing with rising energy costs. a rapid rise in vaping over the past decade reaches record levels in great britain with an estimated li.3 million people taking up the habit. and. after a two year pause due the pandemic, europe s largest street party kicks off its final day at the notting hill carnival in west london. now on bbc news.hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. we humans face a series of interlinked existential challenges. how do we feed a global population heading toward 10 billion?
steal the packages, they don t want to offer a replacement. well, the republicans do have tax cutting policies. and after all, if you really want to help everyone as we saw back with the reagan administration during their period of tax cuts, tax rate cuts across the board, look what happened. the top 20% did great. they gained 12% in real income. but the bottom 20% also gained about 12% in income. you want to raise all votes? cut all taxes? that showed, david, was that incentives do indeed matter. but as far as ted cruz in particular is concerned, he s the only republican and he is separating himself from the other republicans when it comes to spending. he voted against that dran conan $1.8 billion tax spending bill. and that government spending, that s what robs the middle class. john, he makes a great point, mike does about spending. after all, gw bush spend a lot, not as much as president obama
o reilly.com we ll buy you a gift. lis wiehl s book. i believe mom would like that book. finally the winner of the news mystery last week is mark damon who lives in florida gets a batch of factor year. and the new news quiz will be up shortly. now the mail. jason: bill you are right president obama knows where he stands in public opinion. the oil drilling will backfire. conservatives say it is not enough. liberals won t like any of it. so he loses both ways. fred: o reilly, you mentioned mr. obama losing independents, because he s governing from the left. president reagan from the right and did not lose them. in mr. reagan s first year he got pounded. only after his tax cutting policies renewed the economy his poll numbers went up. gordon: in light of congressman johnson s comments that guam might capsize, if a sizable
o reilly.com we ll buy you a gift. lis wiehl s book. i believe mom would like that book. finally the winner of the news mystery last week is mark damon who lives in florida gets a batch of factor year. and the new news quiz will be up shortly. now the mail. jason: bill you are right president obama knows where he stands in public opinion. the oil drilling will backfire. conservatives say it is not enough. liberals won t like any of it. so he loses both ways. fred: o reilly, you mentioned mr. obama losing independents, because he s governing from the left. president reagan from the right and did not lose them. in mr. reagan s first year he got pounded. only after his tax cutting policies renewed the economy his poll numbers went up. gordon: in light of congressman johnson s comments that guam might capsize, if a sizable